padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
I think of funk::spasm funk as the relation of this
to this
to this
curious, might as well ask the expert while he's herethey are listening to what's going on and copping ideas from the latest black sounds
curious, might as well ask the expert while he's here
was that qualitatively different from post-punk musicians doing the same thing a few years later? if so, how?
ya 10-4 thatSpasm in the polymorphous flailing sense, rather than the herky-jerky new wave sense
curious, might as well ask the expert while he's here
was that qualitatively different from post-punk musicians doing the same thing a few years later? if so, how?
100% groove:really trying to nail down this spasm-groove axis.
i don't believe in retrospective cancelling of things because of their enshitenment (although sometimes the enshitement of a genre - or within an individual career - can cast a reverse shadow)
but i think it's fair to say that sometimes a whole way of going about things, or a style of music, becomes obsolete - in the sense that it's got nothing more to give, it can be stretched any further
but equally, you can think that, and move to other things, and then someone unexpectedly finds some new potential in what seemed exhausted
good answer, thanksThat shortfall of fluency and tightness created something new and fresh
no way! Charles Hayward?!
(I'd have to politely disagree with Barty there having seen CH doing a solo set several years ago at a festival - just drums and singing)
right OKThen it's a matter either of gradation or dialectical tension between the two.
I have more thoughts on this btw but I gotta do some work stuff, if I have time maybe tomorrowit does bring up the question of accident vs intentionality. not that it can't be both.
Never been a funk person, but have always admired the single minded concentration on the dancefloor, that shark like focus and sublime efficiency of the rhythm section, a phenomenon that gave rise to perhaps the greatest set of musical artifacts of the 20th century, unsurpassed in tone, sound and purpose - the breaks canon.